The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

